It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: "The Gang Gets Analyzed"Review

This week, on "The Gang Gets Analyzed," Dee dragged the guys to her therapy session so that her poor therapist, played by Reno 911!'s Kerri Kenney-Silver, could settle an argument over who should have done the dishes after a meal that Dee called together at the behest of...her therapist. Not every part of this episode worked, but the fact that most of it was split up into individual pyscho-analytical sessions helped a great deal. Especially when it came down to Charlie and Frank's separate sit-downs. Because those were amazing.

"You've unzipped me!" Frank almost immediately cries out, after declaring that his brain and emotions were akin to "Fort Knox." He then spiraled into a blubbering, hilarious account of his time at cruel and inhumane mental institution ("I was shanghaied upstate to a nitwit school") where he shared his first kiss with a girl with no lips who then later suffocated herself with a plastic bag while trying to be an astronaut. I swear, I laughed until it hurt. This was magic.

Charlie's session, although nothing new Charlie-wise, was also on point; with Charlie describing the essence of "Charlie work" to the therapist. Basically, "your basic slimes or sludges, anything dead or decaying." But despite his moaning, Charlie loved his disgusting tasks because "I love the dark, I love slippery things, I love being naked." Then, the pièce de résistance, a dead pigeon hidden in his jacket. And a desire to glue a bunch of cat hair to his body and roam around the streets at night as a cat-man.

Of course, the main point of this episode was just for The Gang to bark their insanity at someone sane and new. And it was fun to watch Kenney-Silver, who's no slouch at playing eccentric characters herself, be the normal one here; never really even getting fully fed up with the insanity. And then, in the end, randomly assigning Dee to be the "dish bitch." As if she could actually, after the entire ordeal, spot the true loser of the group. Good stuff. But also nothing new. We know how all of these guys work now, and at times their craziness just comes off a creepy more than anything. Especially Dennis and Dee, who might be the scariest of the bunch since their madness is also coupled with a certain level of sanity and self-awareness.

Dennis is so nuts, that the therapist just allowed him to sit there and be nuts; acting like he was a scholarly peer, ala Christopher Lloyd in The Dream Team who actually believed he was one of the doctors at his mental hospital. And Dee just sat there lying about being an actress to a psychotic degree in order to get menial words of forced adulation. The Mac stuff fell flat, but it was interesting to hear more about his thin-fat-thin dysmorphia; perpetrated by Dennis who keeps giving him fat burners and calling him "slim" and "tiny man."

By the end, Frank was screaming about how Dennis and Dee had devoured their third twin, Donne, in utero while Dennis and Charlie tired to kill each other in the waiting room. This episode was pretty much a microcosm of The Gang's usual madness without the benefit of an elaborate story. Again, some of it struck gold, but in the end it was just a display of idiocy in front of an eye-rolling guest star.

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